Second Quotes - page 4

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. (Quentin Crisp)
There are no second acts in American lives. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
about Theseus, began the saying He is a second Hercules. View quote
Plutarch
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. View quote
Pierre Dukan
First things first, second things never. View quote
Shirley Conran
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. View quote
Lisa See
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
I don't play in any tournaments to come second best. View quote
Andy Murray
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. View quote
Jean Kerr
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. (Evelyn Waugh)
No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. View quote
Robert Heller
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. View quote
Robert Frost
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. View quote
Brian De Palma
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. (Luise Rainer)
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. View quote
Donald Trump
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. View quote
Woody Allen
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